Description

A SIOUX PICTORIAL QUILLED AND BEADED HIDE POUCH
c. 1890

decorated on the front with a pair of confronting bird-like figures
overlaying narrow bands, in green, purple, yellow and red-dyed
porcupine quillwork, trimmed with a beaded band of triangles along
the bottom, stitched in translucent red, white, and blue beads, a
panel of quill-wrapped slats with metal cone terminals, and a
quill-wrapped handle

Provenance: Sotheby's American Indian Art, May 22,1989, lot
298.

Length: 11 ½ inches, excluding handle

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